Program will tell story of Dana Point bridge tile portrait

Artist Lubica Selecka works on a tile mosaic last year based on a family photograph taken by Gene Burrus' father in 1933. Selecka and Burrus will discuss the portrait at a Dana Point Historical Society event Wednesday night. PAUL BERSEBACH, REGISTER FILE PHOTO

The Dana Point Historical Society will host local residents Gene Burrus and Lubica Selecka in a presentation called "Family History Comes Alive in Tile" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Dana Hills Tennis Center, 24911 Calle de Tenis, off Street of the Golden Lantern near Camino del Avion.

Burrus' father took a casual family photograph one day in 1933 that is now preserved in colorful tile on Dana Point's new Pacific Coast Highway pedestrian bridge, according to Doris Walker-Smith, program director for the Historical Society.

Burrus, a retired radio and television announcer, producer and engineer, is best known locally as the voice of Dana Point youth baseball games and for announcing the Festival of Whales Parade.

Selecka, a Capistrano Beach artist who re-created the Burrus portrait on the bridge, will join Burrus in a "show and tell" about her assignment. She also is the creator of the colorful tile tall ship that appears beside the Burrus portrait.

A social period before Wednesday's program will begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 949-248-8121.

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Artist Lubica Selecka works on a tile mosaic last year based on a family photograph taken by Gene Burrus' father in 1933. Selecka and Burrus will discuss the portrait at a Dana Point Historical Society event Wednesday night. PAUL BERSEBACH, REGISTER FILE PHOTO
Capistrano Beach artist Lubica Selecka sits in front of her tile mosaic of a tall ship that is on the new pedestrian bridge over Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point. PAUL BERSEBACH, REGISTER FILE PHOTO
This family picture taken by Gene Burrus' father in 1933 was the basis for a tile mosaic that Capistrano Beach artist Lubica Selecka created for Dana Point's pedestrian bridge over Pacific Coast Highway. PAUL BERSEBACH, REGISTER FILE PHOTO
This tile mosaic of a tall ship by artist Lubica Selecka is on the pedestrian bridge over Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point. PAUL BERSEBACH, REGISTER FILE PHOTO

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